IT HAS BEEN A GREAT LIFE! THERE IS SOMETHING IN THESE STORIES AND WILD ADVENTURES FOR EVERYONE. PLEASE READ, AND ENJOY, MY LIFE ADVENTURES, AS MUCH AS I HAVE ENJOYED LIVING THEM.

SOME THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO ME:

• Three bush-plane accidents (unscheduled landings) while flying in remote Alaska

• Six dangerous landings and two "DEADSTICK" landings (the engine quit) while flying my Cessna

• At age fourteen, a shotgun shell primer exploded and nearly blew off my thumb.

• I was shot with a 12-gauge shotgun while hunting, and had 87 BB's in my face, hands, arms and chest

• 40-foot seas while on an 80-foot boat hunting in Kodiak, Alaska

• 70 MPH storm while on our 49-foot boat in Prince William Sound, Alaska

• Instantly engulfed in fog while flying in the Brooks Range Mountains, Alaska

• Landed my plane in near-zero visibility on a mountain lake near Valdez, Alaska

• Scary takeoff in my seaplane with high waves and winds at Katmai National Park, Alaska

• While fishing from my boat in Alaska, a floatplane on takeoff didn't see us and flew within 8-feet over our heads.

• Helicopter drop off - European guided downhill ski trek on a 25-mile glacier run. There were many deep crevasses and drop offs.

Denny Kelly was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and lived in Alaska since 1969. He currently resides in Tucson, AZ. He has two grown sons, and their families, living in Alaska; three siblings and their spouses; seven grandchildren and a wonderful wife.